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Pixelated icon with 'amber' text and star symbols on black, white, and gray backgrounds.

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Pixelated icon with 'amber' text and star symbols on black, white, and gray backgrounds.

Pixelated icon with 'amber' text and star symbols on black, white, and gray backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static icon
  • no motion observed

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text above star in top-left
  • text below star in bottom-left

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated icon split into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant has black background with white text 'amber' and a white five-pointed star below the text. Bottom-left quadrant has white background with black text 'amber' (partially visible) and a black five-pointed star below the text. Top-right and bottom-right quadrants have gray backgrounds with white text 'amber'. The icon uses high-contrast pixel art style with sharp edges, no gradients or anti-aliasing.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with 'amber' text and star symbols on black, white, and gray backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200803051930521947773216

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • amber star pixel art
  • black white gray text icon
  • four quadrant amber star
  • pixelated amber star icon

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • amber

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text 'amber'
  • five-pointed star
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • high contrast

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803051930521947773216
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/86/86b9dcad331407e7ce4d11792d9fe3e2520a3b1f69940a33fce71195af8a7ba7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
86b9dcad331407e7
SHA-256
86b9dcad331407e7ce4d11792d9fe3e2520a3b1f69940a33fce71195af8a7ba7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084860

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924394onnx/unsafe0.084860onnx/nsfw0.045408onnx/nsfl0.039452
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Pixelated icon with 'amber' text and star symbols on black, white, and gray backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:26 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,800 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 620

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • static icon (other, 0.80)
  • high contrast (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static icon
  • no motion observed

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text above star in top-left
  • text below star in bottom-left

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated icon split into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant has black background with white text 'amber' and a white five-pointed star below the text. Bottom-left quadrant has white background with black text 'amber' (partially visible) and a black five-pointed star below the text. Top-right and bottom-right quadrants have gray backgrounds with white text 'amber'. The icon uses high-contrast pixel art style with sharp edges, no gradients or anti-aliasing.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with 'amber' text and star symbols on black, white, and gray backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200803051930521947773216

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • amber star pixel art
  • black white gray text icon
  • four quadrant amber star
  • pixelated amber star icon

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • high-contrast
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • amber

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text 'amber'
  • five-pointed star
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • high contrast
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200803051930521947773216
Archive entry
200803051930521947773216.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803051930521947773216.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803051930521947773216.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016